Alternative wine packaging has been around since the goat skin bota bag debuted in ancient Greece. Glass is a perfect material to store wine in. But it isn’t the best choice for ALL wines. Most wines are enjoyed within weeks of purchase, and glass is the worst material for the environment and limits the market for wine.
There is a lot of focus and even some concern that the wine industry isn’t reaching younger drinkers. What can the industry do to appeal to younger audiences? Are younger generations preferring beer, hard seltzers, mixed cocktails, and RTDs more than wine? Bringing them back entails both dumbing down wine messaging, and being more intelligent in what your saying.
Over the years Tincknell & Tincknell have helped hundreds of clients wrestle with product pricing. Surprisingly, most domestic wineries do not know how pricing works in the three-tier sales channel, much less foreign wineries. It is not a simple or linear equation.
